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In rejecting the jobs report, Trump follows his own playbook of discrediting unfavorable data
When the coronavirus surged during President Donald Trump’s first term, he called for a simple fix: Limit the amount of ...
What to Know About the Jobs Report That Led Trump to Fire the Labor Statistics Chief Amid Trade War Fallout
The data come after economists have expressed concern that the Trump Administration’s flip-flopping tariff policies and ...
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Trump Has Unhinged Excuse for Firing BLS Chief Over Jobs Report
Trump abruptly fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer on Friday after the release of the report, ...
Trump says the Bureau of Labor Statistics orchestrated a ‘scam.’ Here’s how the jobs report really works
President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam.” ...
Reed demands probe into Trump’s firing of official overseeing jobs data after dismal employment report
PROVIDENCE — US Senator Jack Reed is calling for a special investigation into President Trump’s abrupt firing of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics following a weaker-than-expected ...
Did DOGE contribute to the BLS jobs report that Trump hated? Economist Mark Zandi thinks so
Elon Musk’s DOGE may have completed much of its work in the federal bureaucracy, but the trickle-down effect from Musk’s ...
Tracking Trump: Trump attacks the jobs report; a VA proposal to end abortion services; Pirro confirmed as U.S. attorney; and more
Trump proposed restrictions on VA hospitals providing abortions. The Senate confirmed Fox host Jeanine Pirro as U.S. attorney ...
Trump smartly responds to brutal jobs report by firing the job numbers person | Opinion
In the wake of a brutal report showing U.S. job growth slowing, Trump did what any good leader would do: He fired the person ...